From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from haymarket.ed.ac.uk (haymarket.ed.ac.uk [129.215.128.53]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA31306 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 15:48:37 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:57:39 +0100 Message-Id: <199807271057.LAA00708@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: More info: 2.1.108 page cache performance on low memory In-Reply-To: <87af60bbvo.fsf@atlas.CARNet.hr> References: <199807131653.RAA06838@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <199807141730.SAA07239@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <87d8b370ge.fsf@atlas.CARNet.hr> <87hg0c6fz3.fsf@atlas.CARNet.hr> <199807221040.LAA00832@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <87iukovq42.fsf@atlas.CARNet.hr> <199807231222.NAA04748@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <87zpe0u0dg.fsf@atlas.CARNet.hr> <199807231718.SAA13683@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <87af60bbvo.fsf@atlas.CARNet.hr> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , "Eric W. Biederman" , werner@suse.de, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > In the mean time, I applied the same benchmark, I was already doing, > to kernel with Werner's lowmem patch applied, and results are > interesting. Performance is very similar to that with my change, but > there are some differences. With Werner's patch, kernel behaviour is > yet slightly less aggressive: OK, time to look at a bigger set of benchmarks for this. If it helps this case, it needs to be considered for 2.2. --Stephen -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org